Sentence examples for steamboat from from inspiring English sources
(Vice President Bush would be traveling by steamboat from the base to a campaign rally).
While all the boats are permanently docked, in warm weather you can take a brief cruise on the Mystic River aboard the Sabino, a coal-fired, wood-hulled passenger steamboat from 1908.
The developer, Jackie Kamali, a principal of the Kamali Organization, based in Great Neck, N.Y., also sought enough luxury touches in the $24 million building, which rises like a steamboat from atop the old factory, to set the condo apart from the rest of the housing stock in the neighborhood.
With a bright red paddle wheel, black smokestacks, colourful bunting and a classic design, the Queen of the Mississippi may look like a steamboat from the 1800s, but under the hood it is a modern ship with twin diesel-powered propellers that can swivel 360 degrees to provide thrust and manoeuvrability.
At one point he even bought a steamboat from New York and docked it at Johnsonville Pond.
He was joined there on July 29 by Brigadier General Henry Atkinson, who brought 500 men upriver by steamboat from Jefferson Barracks.
The boat is modelled on Hudson River&Long Island Sound steamboats from the turn of the century, &offers narration of the harbor's history.
It was opened in 1836 as the Pearl Street House; the name was changed in the late 60s, when steamboats from Hartford and New England ports docked nearby in Peck Slip.
Steamboating thrived again after the interruptions caused by the Civil War, but by the 1870s railroads had become more efficient modes of transport and gradually caused the retirement of almost all the steamboats from the river.
Low water on the Chena River prevented steamboats from reaching Fairbanks, so a railroad line was built from the Tanana River at Chena to Fairbanks and the mines north of town.
The church had chartered a paddle-wheel, 264-foot-long steamboat, for $350 from the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company to go to Locust Grove Picnic Ground at Eaton's Neck on Long Island.
